Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...of our basic assumptions. I had not initially thought that Delaware could be rendered quite so emblematic and generative. I was wrong. The version of Delaware's history that emerges in...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Movement in American Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006). Chroniclers of the black freedom struggle have long sought to dispel the collective memory that undergirds what local state officials...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...obsolete incubators of anomie that drained cities of their worth. This inexact narrative has been so dominant that the view of public housing as disastrous, and therefore in need of...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...be an artist outside of the home, she made her home the focus of her artistic talent, designing a landmark that would memorialize her work and that of her family. ...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990). and that it chose to administer its agricultural programs through existing institutions that favored local elites.7 Philip Selznick, TVA and the Grass Roots: A Study...
Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
...his archival holdings in the African American collections at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Best known for artist books that narrate African American history in striking...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...Texas include the central role of religious history. He identifies shared ideas and beliefs that, in the nineteenth century, gave rise to a cultural perspective that largely shaped the state's...
The Border South
...from the deeper South dismiss these places as not representative of the region; at other times Northerners make the comment, often with a sigh of relief that the person would...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...(16). Here, The Land Was Ours gestures towards African Americans' historic lack of access to state power that made coastal capitalism possible in the first place—a dilemma that undergirds blacks'...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...for an overview of what some singers have regarded as the “Sacred Harp revival.” For many, however, participation in Sacred Harp singing is a choice that has nothing to do...